British actress Lorraine Cheshire, 65, died on Dec. 19. She costarred in the TV series Stanton Blues, Early Doors, Tittybangbang (a sketch-comedy show, not a porno!), Massive, Waterloo Road, In the Club, Trollied, and Ackley Bridge. She also appeared in the horribly-titled film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Cheshire didn’t start acting till she was 35, when her husband lost his job; she was already a member of the Manchester Actors Company. Cheshire recalled that “the first paid job was as a social worker in the BBC series Cops. That was my very first job and I’ve kept the scripts. I keep everything. A real baptism of fire that was – the director had to tell me, ‘Lorraine, love, you don’t have to shout. We have a microphone!’ I was so embarrassed, but he said ‘don’t worry; you learn as you go along.’ It was real learning on the job and that’s what acting is.”
